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VOLUME,~ 1.- -A1M BI~tfl 1;53. BUIT )'I.X MOINTANA, i~1ONJY.\Y 'i),inUAfY `?i", t1119. PIEFV ET
PRES T WILSON OPTIMISTIC ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Peoples' Disaproval Would Be Death of the World Chamber of Commerce
WILL GO BEFORE PEOPLE
TO ASK LEAGUE SUPPORT
By HlOBIERlT J. lIENI)ER
(United Press Staff (lorreslpondel l )
Aboard George Washinlgltoln, Feb. 24 .--1 residlcnt WVilson is
returningtl to Americain shores coitleidet that coi gress and the
I)eople w'ill Ul prove or tihe participnliolI of lhe United States
ill the league of niatioins. The failure oC Almerica to sanlction
sil i a course would, ihe believes, he a greatl moral blow to the
civilized lations 11ow lbending their efforts toward a just and
lasting peace.
The piresident's historic joiurney Ithrough foreign lands and
h]is work at the 'peace tablle hIIa conlvincedl him that European
lati.ons loolk to the liUited States as the one great power with
out selfish interests piarticipating in the conference.
For the United States to refuse to join what he and the
lmajority of the nations regard as the fuindamental element of
a lastling peace would, he Ilelieves, break the heart of the
o\\Nrld movement for ai new order of thiings.
Hence the president returns to
niake a strong effort at convincing
the country and congressional mem
bers of the vital importance of the
league.
As the covenant union's final
form is not ready for ratification, the
president's work now is largely in
formative. His big fight, if one
proves necessary, will come after the
Paris conference approves the league
plan and the final treaty is com
pleted and ready for submission to
the United States for ratification.
The president will go before the
people, if necessary to ask support,
but that probably will not be before
mid-summer or fall. The president
regards the biggest part of his job
abroad completed, the formation of
a league ovepRant.
Gtood pfrorgss has been reported
to him by wireless from Paris on all
conference problems being worked
out by the committee in his absence.
TEN CHARGED WITH
PLOTTING WILSON'S LIFE
SSpecial United Press Wire.)
Philadelphia, Feb. 24.-Ten al
leged leaders of a plot against presi
dent Wilson were today arrested.
Much seditious literature has been
found in the house where they were
arrested. The men are Cubanls,
Mexicans or Spanish.
MME. BRESHKOVSKY
Mme. Catherine Breshkovsky, "moth
er of the Russian revolution," is in this
country telling Americans of condi
tions in Russia.
STRIKE AT SEATTLE CONTINUES
OLE IS LAUGHING STOCK OF TOWN
Efforts to Disrupt Local of 17,000 Boilermakers Fails;
All Metal Trades Unions Sticking; General Strike
Had Good Effect; Some Sidelight on Ole Hanson's
Comic Opera Army; How People Smiled at Stunts of
Notorious Rattle-Brained Mayor.
Seattle, Feb. 24.---There is no ac
tivity in any of the plants that were
engaged in building ships, and from
present indications, there will be
none of them opened until the mnst
ers accede to the demands of the
workers for higher wages and better
living conditions.
Every trick known to hirelings ot
the capitalist has been used in ef
forts to divitle the workers here, but
without .access.
They I .cir.culatod --ptitio
N lORTH BUTTE ISJ
LOSING MUCH
MONEY NOW
Selling Copper at 18 Cents
That Cost Them 23; "Rec
ord" Made Last Novem
ber; Operating at Loss.
T. F. COLE RESIGNS
FROM PRESIOENT'S JOB
Anaconda Company May Be
in Same Condition As
North Butte in Few Years
With Kelly on the Job.
T. F. Cole resigned in January as
president of the North Butte Mining
colmpany and Robert Linton, former
vice president, was appointed presi
dent.
The North Butte at present is
working only in the Speculator shaft,
doing cement work.
Last November they made what
they call a record-2,000,000 pounds
of copper. This cost them 23 cents
to produce and now they are selling
it at 18 cents, a loss of $100,000 in
one month. They have been operat
ing at a loss for some time, it is said.
"Norman Braly is said to be a fail
ure and Thomas F. Cole wrecked
North Butte, as he has every other
company he has had anything to say
about," said a'lirominent mining man
to the Bulletin today.
"Giroux is a shining example of his
mismanagement. You would think
now that the North Butte company
would be in a hurry to do some min
ing and make up some of the loss.
"Braly certainly has made a rec
ord for himself and Cole, during the
three years he has had charge of
North Butte. He had the worst
metal mine accident that ever hap
pened in America. He barely made
money on the highest copper market
we ever had.
"Finally, when the war was over,
he came through without a mine.
"The man responsible for puttinig
(Continued on Page Two.)
amongst members of the Boilermak
ers' union, the largest local on the
American continent, 17,000 mem
bers, with the end in view of depos
ing the present officials and securing
another charter, then to withdraw
from the Metal Trades council, and
return to work; but the rank and
file did not "fall for it."
At a meeting held in the armory
Wednesday. , ttended by .15,000
Continued on't Fge Three)
SO THE PEOPLE MAY KNOW
Editor Iltletin:
I (-.1L 'OPULAR PKO(ItNI If you are desirous of protecting
. 1o 1 .8000,. $..00oo. X-l(- O oC 1>,.N-. the Butte public from a piece of bare
..)MISSION8 60c. and $1.00, ON SAI. F AT 7:80 TONi(,i'. faced "profiteering" plea4se take note
danarmaent Charles L. Wagnler D F MlsS I.,enty, Axlr.,t. t, of the following:
I have just c('amle home front the
. --.. - _ .. --- American theater, where they Ilashed
BROOKLYN. BROOKLYN. on the screen announnceient that
" 'The Hearts of iumanity,' a picture
L hich otpes Monday, and for which
OC SM11 T RO O they wouhl have to char ge an a
mlission ice or 5ii cents, 1Itrt that
SONh AND FUlTON CT Itutte aws gettilng off clheap, as lit
A " NIO, 15 -- NGH' 1 de ntw)nas eluing shown all o1e14 at $1.00
T" 1 . -A1-T1 ,d o,.r,,.".'
lIonder. Tuaehty, w'edureday, ,ursdau, Idny, 'r atur oS , Sunda The encllosed aidvlertisemnl.lt of
Feb. 17.. 18, 19t. Feb*2=. 271 . a. nIw's Metropolitan was taken from
"The H eartof D. . GRIIrIH speaks for itself whSthetr Butlte is
A Romance of favre, or boei victimize by a
Sald in the Timellls antl ir.Is wonIderl i
uma ty Happif th Aericayn theater aht agenI1ente1
iA Tele of Ieve, War and .acrilc., A Page frot .tllh iteao hr Li., could resist' the tenlptation to raise
with Withl their prices, and give the dear people
DOROTHY PHILIPS Lillian Gish and Robert Ht a square deal. Their deception should
SUPIrfun AI''I):VI.ttE IPRO;R.\oail~: . bhe made known, for Loew's Metropol
_ __ .itan theater is a theater of thie first
...... .- class, and why Butte should be asked
-1 T K o ptay this exorlbitant alnission is
T~ttuonly one mlore proof to the public
that they are surely the victims of
greed and selfishness. L. J. M.
RALLY OF DRYS
A BIG EVENT
Mrs. Hathaway Talks and
Attorney General Ford
Assails Butte's Sheriff
and Mayor.
In his talk before a large audience
at the high school auditorium yest.el
day afternoon, gathered to celebrate
the victory of the prohibitionists in
this state and nation. Attorney Gen
eral S. C. Ford took occasion to assail
Sherift John K. O'lourke and Mayor
W. H. Maloney, while praising the
work of County Attorney Joseph R.
Jackson.
Mr. Ford said ini effect: "You peo
plo here are more responsible for
conditions than Joe Jackson, but at
the same time you elect him. you
elect a sheriff who has never en
forced the law and never would in a
thousand years. And you also elect
a mayor who also would do nothing
to assist the county official. It isn't
right to elect a county attorney and
then elect men who tie his hands to
a certain extent. You should see to
it that you elect a clean, upright latan
for mayor. This condition should
prevail all over the state of Mon
tana. I have only two more years
to serve, but I ant going througn
with my program and my purposes
and I Will deal all scoundrels all the
misery I can. If I have done some
good during my term of office, the
only reward I ask for is the knowl
edge that I have done my duty."
The meeting, which was presided
over by Rev. George D. Wolfe, was
called for the purpose of. celebrating
locally the making of Montana a dry
state anti in celebrating what has al
ready been done to make the nation
dry.
Mrs. Maggie Smith Hathaway, rep
resentative from Iavalli county to
the state legislature, also spoke on
prohibition, devoting most of her
time to relating what had been done
at Helena in regard to the prohibi
tionary measure and also the moth.l
ers' pension bill.
Mrs. Hathaway told of being in the
house of representatives at Wash
ington when the prohibition amend
ment was passed, and she declared
this was the most momentous mo
ment in the history of the country.
Nationally, she said, prohibition was
assured.
If the law must be enforced, how
ever, Mrs. Hathaway declared,. those
who have worked so hard for its
passage must not cease their efforts
but must realize that the fight has
just started and every effort must be
given to the officials in power to see
that the law is obeyed. In touching
on the search and seizure law the
speaker said that it was aimed at
bootleggers and those who tried to
evade the law in selling liquor and
not at the man who wished to keep
on hand liquors for medicinal pur
poses.
,MAi. Ford's Talk.
County Attorney Joseph [I. Jack
son, who was on' the program, could
not be present and it was necessary
to forego listening to him. In intro
ducing Mr. Ford, Mr. Wolfe among
other things stated that he was free
to confess that the enforcement of
the law in this community had been
much better than he had really ex
pected and he paid a tribute to Mr.
Jackson during his remarks. He
did not admit that Butte was actual
ly dry but it-. L -getting dryer and
(ContinueO4 oP ale Tywo)
READ KEPT PRESS
KNOWS LEAGUE
IS VERY BAD
Ex-President T',ft Admits
Attacks on t'rmers Was
Made Without Investiga
tion of Their Actions.
IGNORANCE OF BII
MEN IS HERE SEEN
While Taft Admits Farm
ers' and Workers' Griev
ances Legitimate, "God
Knows" Only Remedy.
Challenged by a representative of
the Nonpartisan league to give the
basis for his recent public statement:
"The theory of 1. W. W.ism finds an
analogy in the Nonpartisan league,"
ex-President Taft admitted that he
had heard only one side. He had
gotten his information entirely from
the hostile kept press and the farm
er-hating politicians of the Twin
cities.
lie also admitted that, while th1.
farmers of the northwest labored un
der great economic injustices and
had legitimate grievances, he had
nothing to suggest by way of solu
tiou. His atitudle had not changed
from that of u overal years ago, when
a woman with a number of children
(Continued on Page Three.)
FRANCIS J. HENEY
A snapshot of Franels T. Heney, gov
ernment investigator, whoblas been
giving testimony agatist the packers
before lthe snuate a.riel1t - .QM
mittee..
SEDITION CgSE
GOES TO JURY
Judge Word Rules Against
Defendants in Every Case;
After Arguments Jury
Will Take a Hand.
IHlelna, lFeb. 24.---The trial of W.
F. Dunn of the Butte Daily Bulletin.
charged with sedition, was resumed
here this morning.
The court ruled that tie intention
of the defendant Dunn at the time
the alleged seditious article was writ
ten and published in the Bulletin was
immaterial.
Dunn was allowed to explain to the
jury that what he meant by the state
council of defense being "dominated
by a slinly political gang" was thait
both the democratic and republican
parties of Montana were financed di
rectly, in large part, bIy the Ana
condla Copper Mining company and
that the chairman of both party cen
tral committees made frequent trips
to Butte for the purpose of getting
more money, and that because of this
le believed that men elected on
either ticket, and men appointed by
the one elected, would be more apt
to represent the corporate interests
than the interests of the common peo
pile of Montana.
The defense was allowed to intro
duce plractically no testimony and
the defense was overruled by Judge
Word on all points.
The defense rested at noon and
after instructions and arguments this
afternoon the case will go to the jury
this evening.
MISSOULA PASTOR WAS
NOT ORTHODOX ENOUGH
Mmissoula, Feb. 24.---Rev. W. T.
Lockwood today read from the pull
pit his resignation as pastor of Im
manuel Baptist church, following a
long dispute with the deacons rela
tive to the subject matter of his ser
mons. The deacons, according to the
clergyman's statement, declared that
he was not orthodox enough and de
voted too much of his sermons to mu
nicipal affairs and national interests.
Immediately after he resigned a pro
test, signed by about 80 per cent of
the church members, was read pro
testing against the action of the
deacons and tile young people of the
church took similar action tonight.
Rev. Mr. Lockwood is a graduate of
Hillsdale college, 'Michigan, and the
University of Chicago, coining here
from the latter institution in August,
1917.
PHEPtAINB AITACK ON
THE MUNICH REBELS
(Special Inited lPress Wire.)
Paris, Feb. 24. --War Minister
Rosshaupter is preparing to attack
the Munich revolutionists who are
being strongly reinforced, according
to a Berlin dispatch.
THE WEATHER.
THE WEATHER.
Generally fair today; somewhat
warmer in west and central portions.
Tomorrow jprobably fair and warmer.
GREAT DEMONSTRATION AS
PRESIDENT ARRIVES HOME
(Special United Press Wire.)
Boston, Feb. 24.-President Wilson arrived here at
11:53 this morning. Troops presented arms as he ar
rived home after his history-making trip to Europe. As
the revenue cuaitr came up the harbor, escorted by
naval vessels, salut es were fired, st earnmers in the bay
greeted him with a bedlam of tooting whistles and sir
(Its. There was much cheering as the president was
seen standing on the bridge as the ship approached the
wharf.
Just before President Wilson entered an automobile it
was learned 22 suffragists had been arrested near the
state house where they had gathered with the intention
of confronting the president with placards asking him
about; votes for women.
No inspectors, other th an officials were anywhere near
the landing place. The great d'emonstration began as
the crowds sighted a long line of autos approaching from
the pier.
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A COSSAGCK MOTOR
CORPSFOR MIN
NESOTA GANG
Legislature Provides Force
of 2,000 Camouflaged As
Relief Workers; Direct
Attack on Labor.
BILL PASSES THE HOUSE
BY A TWO TO ONE VOTE
Vicious Piece of Prussian
ism for Minnesota Labor;
Reconstruction of Indus
trial Pirates Goes on.
Minneapolis, Feb. 24.-The lower
house of the Minnesota legislature
passed the lootr) corr.; Lill last week
as a direct attack on organized la
bor and the Nonpartisan league. The
voto was 85 to 43.
The motor corps is a big step to
ward the creation of a state constab
ulary, the aim of which is to sup
press free speech, lawful assemblage
and other constitutional rights of
citizens, which may conflict with the
business of political interests of the
group of men now dominating the
state of Minnesota.
The bill as passed by thle house is
a pertectly ca louflaged piece of leg
islation. To All ienents and purposes,
from a casIual reading of the bill, the
motor corps is to be used lonly foi
the relief of conlllmunitis stricken by
fire, flood or some similar calamnity.
The 2,000-odd members of the motor
corps are privileged to wear side
arms "for the purpose of preventing
looting by vandals." The quotation
is taken from the remarkable speliech
of F. J. Mcl'artlin of Koochiching
(Continued on Page Two.)
NATIONS LEAGUE AND SCANDALS
IN COURTS MARTIAL BIG TOPICS
President Begins League Fight in Boston; Abolition of
Munition Trust Will Draw Attacks; Senate Airs the
Harsh Army Sentences; Baer Demands Fairness in
Discharging Men;; Kept Sheet in Capital Quotes
Burnquist Slanders Against Nonpartisan League.
\V .hinglon. D. C.. F'eb. 24.-An
nouncement that President Wilson
would land in Boston rather than in
New York, upon his return from
France, and would open his cam
paign for ratification of the constitu
tion of the league of nations in the
very citadel of Senator Lodge, has
caused serious anxiety among the
standpatters here. They realize that
the president feels so confident of
the support of the people of New
England for his efforts to make wars
The parade traversed the down
town streets, banked on both sides
by cheering thousands, Boston
strove to outdo the greeting extended
Wilson in London, Paris and Rome.
President Wilson bowed and waved
his hat again and again in response
to continuous yells of welcome.
Every window had its crowd, wav
ing flags and shouting. On the roofs
were soldiers with rifles, watching
dows opposite. The hotel was
reached at 12:50 o'clock.
et ,ty ship in the harbor was a
muss of colors in honor of the presi
(lent's arrival. Secretary Tumulty
went aboard the George Washington
last night. It is believed he took the
$6,000o,000,e000 war revenue bill for
the president to sign.
The streets along which the presi
dential procession passed was roped
to hold back the crowds.
The Hotel Copley plaza is patrol
ed by many secret service men. Ex
traordinary precaution is taken ev
erywhere to guard the president.
Mechanic's hall, where the speech
was made, was surrounded by of
ficers early this morning. Men with
rifles were stationed on roofs of
buildings. Persons without cre
dentials were not even permitted to
cross the streets through which the
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DR. F. G. COTTRELL
Dr. Fred Gardner Cottrell has been
awarded the Perkins medal for the
most notable achievement In chemistry
during the last year.
henceforth impossible, that he is
willing to stand or fall by the ef
fect of his first speech on the league
of nations, delivered in "the enemy's
country." For surely if the presi
dent's plan is to be defeated it must
be at the hands of the reactionary
wing of the republican party, and the
leader of that element today is
Lodge.
Nobody but Woodrow Wilson. the
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